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[โ€“] staz2@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Dr Oerker was founded by a nazi. Probably still controlled and owned by nazis. Check Wikipedia for their family history.

Edit: not all German companies, this one specifically, check my answer below for details. Also some companies supported and profited from the nazi regime but aren't affiliated anymore. They changed ownership, renounced their past and the ideology and eventually made reparations. I don't believe this is the case with Dr Oetker but I would be happy to be proven wrong.

[โ€“] DmMacniel@feddit.org 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Everything german is Nazi from the early 1900 got it.

Sod off.

[โ€“] staz2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Definitely not, lot of good German companies. on my phone so didn't make a detailed essay, which is why I encouraged you to read Wikipedia.

For those who can't be bothered:

During the 1930s and 1940s, Rudolf-August Oetker was an active member of the Waffen-SS of the Third Reich. The company supported the war effort by providing pudding mixes and munitions to German troops. The business used slave labour in some of its facilities. A bronze bust of Richard Kaselowsky still sits within the company headquarters in Bielefeld. Kaselowsky was killed during an air raid on Bielefeld in 1944.[2] The Oetker Family is among those German families, who have profited most from their close relations to the Nazi regime.[3]

I have to correct the original founder might not be a nazi. His grand son defined was.

The company is still privately held by the same family, and controlled

Richard Oetker, August Oetker's brother, took over as CEO in 2010.

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Oetke

Edit: before someone try to paint me as some anti German strawman. I like Germany, and went there multiple time, for works, vacation and the ccc congresses and camps And it actually pained me to learn the company history because I actually liked their pizza.